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What does a cord of firewood go for in your area?
9/17/2010 5:02:15 PM
Found a good patch of beetle killed pine yesterday...I am needing some work and trying to figure out if it will be profitable to go take 30 or 40 cords out of here....
9/17/2010 5:39:07 PM
On average, I would say about $150 for fir. I cut my own so I don't shop prices.
9/17/2010 5:52:09 PM
Is Pine your normal firewood around there?
As far as I know pine being a softwood is not ideal for wood burning.
As far as I know pine being a softwood is not ideal for wood burning.
9/17/2010 6:08:51 PM
Originally Posted By Kent2:
Is Pine your normal firewood around there?
As far as I know pine being a softwood is not ideal for wood burning.
Is Pine your normal firewood around there?
As far as I know pine being a softwood is not ideal for wood burning.
Yes it is....Is about all we have around here....
9/17/2010 6:25:25 PM
Seasoned oak usually$ 100-130 delivered
9/17/2010 7:45:41 PM
Interesting. Around here I would never even consider burning pine in a fireplace.
9/17/2010 10:08:28 PM
Originally Posted By PA452:
Interesting. Around here I would never even consider burning pine in a fireplace.
Interesting. Around here I would never even consider burning pine in a fireplace.
Usually don't burn pine either. Much prefer maple or oak.
9/17/2010 11:02:21 PM
Lodge pole pine is different than eastern varieties, and is good to go in woodstoves and fireplaces.
9/18/2010 7:34:57 AM
I see prices around here of $120-$130 for ready-to-burn mixed hardwood on a u-load/u-haul basis. Seems to be about $170-$180 to have an equivalent load delivered. Nobody around here sells pine so it's hard to tell what a cord of pine would cost.
9/19/2010 12:15:34 AM
175+.
I split my own though.
I split my own though.
9/19/2010 3:22:02 AM
Dad used to sell it for $75 or so a cord but that was 20yrs ago in MT.
Think it is running near $100 or so a cord now down there.
Wish we could get a bunch of that.
Think it is running near $100 or so a cord now down there.
Wish we could get a bunch of that.
9/19/2010 4:16:23 AM
$100-150 for mixed hardwood.
9/19/2010 10:11:29 AM
Originally Posted By pevrs114:
$100-150 for mixed hardwood.
$100-150 for mixed hardwood.
Same down here in north Alabama.
9/19/2010 10:57:48 AM
200+ around here for seasoned fir
9/19/2010 11:33:31 AM
OP
200+ for pinion pine, tamarack, fir, etc.
300-400 for hard woods (oak, almond, eucalyptus) trucked over the hill from cali
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I have been burning Almond for some years. I use tamarack for kindling. Almond has one of the highest heating values (density) of any US wood. Tamarack is very straight, knot free and lights easy, making it ideal for splitting and kindling.
Eastern Guys:
Pine is all we have here except for Aspen and Cottonwood. I have never been to the east coast, so I don’t know about your pine varieties but the pine we have here burns just fine. Nobody has a chimney fire. Hell, my dad and I are the only people I know that clean our chimneys every year. You need to burn pine HOT to prevent creosote. The reason I buy the fruit wood (Almond) is it has a lower cost / BTU. IE: cheaper to heat your house with. Plus you don’t have to handle so much wood.
Aspen and Cottonwood are considered ‘junk wood’. I have both on my property and burn it when it comes down but you have to put a LOT in to get any heat.
ETA: What are you calling a ‘cord’. I had a friend in Michigan that told me he burn 45 cords a year. I always though – man it must get cold there! Turns out they use a ‘face cord’ - 4' x 8' x 16" - instead of a ‘cord’ = 4' x 4' x 8'.
200+ for pinion pine, tamarack, fir, etc.
300-400 for hard woods (oak, almond, eucalyptus) trucked over the hill from cali
***********************************
I have been burning Almond for some years. I use tamarack for kindling. Almond has one of the highest heating values (density) of any US wood. Tamarack is very straight, knot free and lights easy, making it ideal for splitting and kindling.
Eastern Guys:
Pine is all we have here except for Aspen and Cottonwood. I have never been to the east coast, so I don’t know about your pine varieties but the pine we have here burns just fine. Nobody has a chimney fire. Hell, my dad and I are the only people I know that clean our chimneys every year. You need to burn pine HOT to prevent creosote. The reason I buy the fruit wood (Almond) is it has a lower cost / BTU. IE: cheaper to heat your house with. Plus you don’t have to handle so much wood.
Aspen and Cottonwood are considered ‘junk wood’. I have both on my property and burn it when it comes down but you have to put a LOT in to get any heat.
ETA: What are you calling a ‘cord’. I had a friend in Michigan that told me he burn 45 cords a year. I always though – man it must get cold there! Turns out they use a ‘face cord’ - 4' x 8' x 16" - instead of a ‘cord’ = 4' x 4' x 8'.
9/19/2010 12:17:09 PM
Originally Posted By Ranchhand365:
OP
200+ for pinion pine, tamarack, fir, etc.
300-400 for hard woods (oak, almond, eucalyptus) trucked over the hill from cali
***********************************
I have been burning Almond for some years. I use tamarack for kindling. Almond has one of the highest heating values (density) of any US wood. Tamarack is very straight, knot free and lights easy, making it ideal for splitting and kindling.
Eastern Guys:
Pine is all we have here except for Aspen and Cottonwood. I have never been to the east coast, so I don’t know about your pine varieties but the pine we have here burns just fine. Nobody has a chimney fire. Hell, my dad and I are the only people I know that clean our chimneys every year. You need to burn pine HOT to prevent creosote. The reason I buy the fruit wood (Almond) is it has a lower cost / BTU. IE: cheaper to heat your house with. Plus you don’t have to handle so much wood.
Aspen and Cottonwood are considered ‘junk wood’. I have both on my property and burn it when it comes down but you have to put a LOT in to get any heat.
ETA: What are you calling a ‘cord’. I had a friend in Michigan that told me he burn 45 cords a year. I always though – man it must get cold there! Turns out they use a ‘face cord’ - 4' x 8' x 16" - instead of a ‘cord’ = 4' x 4' x 8'.
OP
200+ for pinion pine, tamarack, fir, etc.
300-400 for hard woods (oak, almond, eucalyptus) trucked over the hill from cali
***********************************
I have been burning Almond for some years. I use tamarack for kindling. Almond has one of the highest heating values (density) of any US wood. Tamarack is very straight, knot free and lights easy, making it ideal for splitting and kindling.
Eastern Guys:
Pine is all we have here except for Aspen and Cottonwood. I have never been to the east coast, so I don’t know about your pine varieties but the pine we have here burns just fine. Nobody has a chimney fire. Hell, my dad and I are the only people I know that clean our chimneys every year. You need to burn pine HOT to prevent creosote. The reason I buy the fruit wood (Almond) is it has a lower cost / BTU. IE: cheaper to heat your house with. Plus you don’t have to handle so much wood.
Aspen and Cottonwood are considered ‘junk wood’. I have both on my property and burn it when it comes down but you have to put a LOT in to get any heat.
ETA: What are you calling a ‘cord’. I had a friend in Michigan that told me he burn 45 cords a year. I always though – man it must get cold there! Turns out they use a ‘face cord’ - 4' x 8' x 16" - instead of a ‘cord’ = 4' x 4' x 8'.
4x8x16=512 and 4x4x8=128, or am I missing something?
9/19/2010 12:26:45 PM
A cord is 4x4x8 here in MT. And the wood the OP is talking about if dry would sell for $120-$140 a cord split and delivered.
9/19/2010 1:21:12 PM
45 cords a year? 
no way.
no way.
9/19/2010 4:54:29 PM
Originally Posted By MotorMouth:
Originally Posted By Ranchhand365:
OP
200+ for pinion pine, tamarack, fir, etc.
300-400 for hard woods (oak, almond, eucalyptus) trucked over the hill from cali
***********************************
I have been burning Almond for some years. I use tamarack for kindling. Almond has one of the highest heating values (density) of any US wood. Tamarack is very straight, knot free and lights easy, making it ideal for splitting and kindling.
Eastern Guys:
Pine is all we have here except for Aspen and Cottonwood. I have never been to the east coast, so I don’t know about your pine varieties but the pine we have here burns just fine. Nobody has a chimney fire. Hell, my dad and I are the only people I know that clean our chimneys every year. You need to burn pine HOT to prevent creosote. The reason I buy the fruit wood (Almond) is it has a lower cost / BTU. IE: cheaper to heat your house with. Plus you don’t have to handle so much wood.
Aspen and Cottonwood are considered ‘junk wood’. I have both on my property and burn it when it comes down but you have to put a LOT in to get any heat.
ETA: What are you calling a ‘cord’. I had a friend in Michigan that told me he burn 45 cords a year. I always though – man it must get cold there! Turns out they use a ‘face cord’ - 4' x 8' x 16" - instead of a ‘cord’ = 4' x 4' x 8'.
4x8x16=512 and 4x4x8=128, or am I missing something?
OP
200+ for pinion pine, tamarack, fir, etc.
300-400 for hard woods (oak, almond, eucalyptus) trucked over the hill from cali
***********************************
I have been burning Almond for some years. I use tamarack for kindling. Almond has one of the highest heating values (density) of any US wood. Tamarack is very straight, knot free and lights easy, making it ideal for splitting and kindling.
Eastern Guys:
Pine is all we have here except for Aspen and Cottonwood. I have never been to the east coast, so I don’t know about your pine varieties but the pine we have here burns just fine. Nobody has a chimney fire. Hell, my dad and I are the only people I know that clean our chimneys every year. You need to burn pine HOT to prevent creosote. The reason I buy the fruit wood (Almond) is it has a lower cost / BTU. IE: cheaper to heat your house with. Plus you don’t have to handle so much wood.
Aspen and Cottonwood are considered ‘junk wood’. I have both on my property and burn it when it comes down but you have to put a LOT in to get any heat.
ETA: What are you calling a ‘cord’. I had a friend in Michigan that told me he burn 45 cords a year. I always though – man it must get cold there! Turns out they use a ‘face cord’ - 4' x 8' x 16" - instead of a ‘cord’ = 4' x 4' x 8'.
cord = 4 feet x 4 feet x 8 feet
face cord = 4 feet x 8 feet x 16 inches
9/19/2010 5:14:10 PM
One cord of Juniper (not for heating, I live in AZ) is $190 if I pick it up.
4x8x16" btw
4x8x16" btw
9/19/2010 5:29:13 PM
Originally Posted By Ranchhand365:
I had a friend in Michigan that told me he burn 45 cords a year. I always though – man it must get cold there! Turns out they use a ‘face cord’ - 4' x 8' x 16" - instead of a ‘cord’ = 4' x 4' x 8'.
I had a friend in Michigan that told me he burn 45 cords a year. I always though – man it must get cold there! Turns out they use a ‘face cord’ - 4' x 8' x 16" - instead of a ‘cord’ = 4' x 4' x 8'.
45 face cords is still a heck of a lot of wood to burn in a season if you're handling it all manually. If I had to handle that much wood in a season and burn it in my stove, I'd reconsider wood heat.
9/19/2010 5:51:53 PM
How much do you go through in a season Feral? I just sold my buddy 3 cords and it seemed like more than enough for the winter.
9/19/2010 6:12:47 PM
Originally Posted By Tyler259:
How much do you go through in a season Feral? I just sold my buddy 3 cords and it seemed like more than enough for the winter.
How much do you go through in a season Feral? I just sold my buddy 3 cords and it seemed like more than enough for the winter.
I think we burned just shy of 4 cords last season.
9/19/2010 6:29:06 PM
Here it's selling for around $140/cord split and delivered. 8' lengths about $50-$70/cord depending. It's all beetle kill here too. I just bought 2 cord of bucked wood for $110 using my truck to transport it a very short distance - and I got it split by hand in two easy afternoons 
. Truckloads of 20ish cord 40' lengths are $400 or so here. This is very recent pricing - in a month it'll go up. In the dead of winter a split cord delivered can run $180. Timing is everything..............................
Hope that info helps.
-JC
. Truckloads of 20ish cord 40' lengths are $400 or so here. This is very recent pricing - in a month it'll go up. In the dead of winter a split cord delivered can run $180. Timing is everything..............................
Hope that info helps.
-JC
9/19/2010 9:07:00 PM
Thanks for the info guys....Gonna be cutting this for resale....Just trying to get it to pencil out....
9/19/2010 9:09:30 PM
Free
My BOL is 5 acres surrounded by BLM on 3 sides
and there is more than enough felled timber to cut
on my land.
I currently have about 6-7 cords cut and ready to move
and a shit-ton more to cut.
My BOL is 5 acres surrounded by BLM on 3 sides
and there is more than enough felled timber to cut
on my land.
I currently have about 6-7 cords cut and ready to move
and a shit-ton more to cut.
9/19/2010 9:12:18 PM
Originally Posted By zoe17:
Seasoned oak usually$ 100-130 delivered
Seasoned oak usually$ 100-130 delivered
this
9/21/2010 8:08:46 AM
Originally Posted By axl:
Same down here in north Alabama.
Originally Posted By pevrs114:
$100-150 for mixed hardwood.
$100-150 for mixed hardwood.
Same down here in north Alabama.
Except there is almost always someone on Craigslist wanting to get rid of free firewood, I've never had to pay for it.
Granted, I only use it for cooking, BBQs etc. not to heat my home.
9/21/2010 9:42:21 AM
$150 - 200 per cord of split seasoned (maybe) hardwood around me.
9/21/2010 10:15:07 AM
Originally Posted By Mountaineer_Shootist:
cord = 4 feet x 4 feet x 8 feet
face cord = 4 feet x 8 feet x 16 inches
Originally Posted By MotorMouth:
Originally Posted By Ranchhand365:
OP
200+ for pinion pine, tamarack, fir, etc.
300-400 for hard woods (oak, almond, eucalyptus) trucked over the hill from cali
***********************************
I have been burning Almond for some years. I use tamarack for kindling. Almond has one of the highest heating values (density) of any US wood. Tamarack is very straight, knot free and lights easy, making it ideal for splitting and kindling.
Eastern Guys:
Pine is all we have here except for Aspen and Cottonwood. I have never been to the east coast, so I don’t know about your pine varieties but the pine we have here burns just fine. Nobody has a chimney fire. Hell, my dad and I are the only people I know that clean our chimneys every year. You need to burn pine HOT to prevent creosote. The reason I buy the fruit wood (Almond) is it has a lower cost / BTU. IE: cheaper to heat your house with. Plus you don’t have to handle so much wood.
Aspen and Cottonwood are considered ‘junk wood’. I have both on my property and burn it when it comes down but you have to put a LOT in to get any heat.
ETA: What are you calling a ‘cord’. I had a friend in Michigan that told me he burn 45 cords a year. I always though – man it must get cold there! Turns out they use a ‘face cord’ - 4' x 8' x 16" - instead of a ‘cord’ = 4' x 4' x 8'.
4x8x16=512 and 4x4x8=128, or am I missing something?
OP
200+ for pinion pine, tamarack, fir, etc.
300-400 for hard woods (oak, almond, eucalyptus) trucked over the hill from cali
***********************************
I have been burning Almond for some years. I use tamarack for kindling. Almond has one of the highest heating values (density) of any US wood. Tamarack is very straight, knot free and lights easy, making it ideal for splitting and kindling.
Eastern Guys:
Pine is all we have here except for Aspen and Cottonwood. I have never been to the east coast, so I don’t know about your pine varieties but the pine we have here burns just fine. Nobody has a chimney fire. Hell, my dad and I are the only people I know that clean our chimneys every year. You need to burn pine HOT to prevent creosote. The reason I buy the fruit wood (Almond) is it has a lower cost / BTU. IE: cheaper to heat your house with. Plus you don’t have to handle so much wood.
Aspen and Cottonwood are considered ‘junk wood’. I have both on my property and burn it when it comes down but you have to put a LOT in to get any heat.
ETA: What are you calling a ‘cord’. I had a friend in Michigan that told me he burn 45 cords a year. I always though – man it must get cold there! Turns out they use a ‘face cord’ - 4' x 8' x 16" - instead of a ‘cord’ = 4' x 4' x 8'.
cord = 4 feet x 4 feet x 8 feet
face cord = 4 feet x 8 feet x 16 inches
Face cord is about $180 in NE Collin county. I got cheated last year. I though I was getting full cords and after they delivered 4 "cords", it came out to be about 3.25 cords. I called back they said 'face cords'
9/22/2010 3:47:44 PM
$195 for pine $250 for juniper and the feed store is getting $269 for almond out of California
ETA: $269 is for a 3/4 cord on the almond.. sorry.. Travis when you get it penciled out let me know.. I will tell as many people here as I can..
ETA: $269 is for a 3/4 cord on the almond.. sorry.. Travis when you get it penciled out let me know.. I will tell as many people here as I can..
9/25/2010 8:55:42 AM
Not sure what a cord is but a truck load stacked is around $70 here on average. Some people higher some lower.
9/25/2010 9:27:35 AM
Originally Posted By M60forever:
Not sure what a cord is but a truck load stacked is around $70 here on average. Some people higher some lower.
Not sure what a cord is but a truck load stacked is around $70 here on average. Some people higher some lower.
About the same here in southern IN.
9/25/2010 9:43:39 AM
I just typed "firewood" in www.nwclassifieds.com and it says $145 and up. That's fir though. I prefer to pay extra for Apple from Eastern WA. Last time I got 2 cords I think I paid a little over $300 delivered. That will last me a couple years, though.
Here in the Northwest, there is not a lot of hardwood to burn besides Apple and Cherry from orchards. Our forests are evergreen trees (Fir, Cedar, Hemlock) with some Alder and Maple.
Here in the Northwest, there is not a lot of hardwood to burn besides Apple and Cherry from orchards. Our forests are evergreen trees (Fir, Cedar, Hemlock) with some Alder and Maple.
9/25/2010 10:54:40 AM
I'm paying a 12 pack of beer for a truckload of mesquite in about 2 weeks.
9/28/2010 9:37:40 PM
Originally Posted By Essayons:
I just typed "firewood" in www.nwclassifieds.com and it says $145 and up. That's fir though. I prefer to pay extra for Apple from Eastern WA. Last time I got 2 cords I think I paid a little over $300 delivered. That will last me a couple years, though.
Here in the Northwest, there is not a lot of hardwood to burn besides Apple and Cherry from orchards. Our forests are evergreen trees (Fir, Cedar, Hemlock) with some Alder and Maple.
I just typed "firewood" in www.nwclassifieds.com and it says $145 and up. That's fir though. I prefer to pay extra for Apple from Eastern WA. Last time I got 2 cords I think I paid a little over $300 delivered. That will last me a couple years, though.
Here in the Northwest, there is not a lot of hardwood to burn besides Apple and Cherry from orchards. Our forests are evergreen trees (Fir, Cedar, Hemlock) with some Alder and Maple.
Don't forget the madrona. Heavy wet shit wood if there ever was one, a bitch to split too. But once dried, it was the shiznit for warming your house. I used it in my 6'x8' wood fired sauna when I lived up in Seattle; that wood burns hot once it's dried.
Merlin
10/1/2010 9:34:44 PM
I know a guy by me that gets $175/cord mixed hardwood mostly oak delivered.
10/6/2010 7:38:25 AM
$210 cut split seasoned delivered in these parts.
10/6/2010 9:52:08 AM
Originally Posted By exwildlandfire:
Yes it is....Is about all we have around here....
Originally Posted By Kent2:
Is Pine your normal firewood around there?
As far as I know pine being a softwood is not ideal for wood burning.
Is Pine your normal firewood around there?
As far as I know pine being a softwood is not ideal for wood burning.
Yes it is....Is about all we have around here....
I found the same in Wy. and Mt. Pine and Aspen.
All hardwood here.(maple,oak,beech) It goes for $175 for green, and $225 dry.
10/6/2010 2:23:03 PM
Originally Posted By proto_moose:
About the same here in southern IN.
Originally Posted By M60forever:
Not sure what a cord is but a truck load stacked is around $70 here on average. Some people higher some lower.
Not sure what a cord is but a truck load stacked is around $70 here on average. Some people higher some lower.
About the same here in southern IN.
about the same in Greeneville, Tn
ETA: for hardwood not pine
10/7/2010 12:15:35 AM
Red fir is about $125 a cord, split and delivered. The beauty of lodge pole is that depending on the fire place not every piece needs split.
10/7/2010 11:23:19 AM
Lodge pole here SW MT goes for $110-$140 a cord split and delivered.
10/14/2010 2:47:16 PM
now 350-400 for alleged hardwood. i've since switched to coal.
10/20/2010 12:06:54 PM
Hardwood - $195 cut, split and delivered.
10/21/2010 9:27:47 AM
$120.00 a cord delivered. though it is not seasoned.
It is a mixture of red oak,hickory,and maple.
It is a mixture of red oak,hickory,and maple.
10/25/2010 12:40:04 AM
Northern Michigan 75-90
10/25/2010 2:10:54 PM
Friend of mine does it on the side, he's getting $200- for a true cord (not a truckload "close enough" cord), cut split seasoned, no pine wood. He'll pay $100- for a cords worth of logs, unsplit.
Pine here is mostly red or white, with some cedar, fir maybe mixed in. White and red pine are heavy in creosote. Too bad because the White Pines are huge around here.
Pine here is mostly red or white, with some cedar, fir maybe mixed in. White and red pine are heavy in creosote. Too bad because the White Pines are huge around here.
10/26/2010 8:07:48 PM
Well I just ordered a cord delivered for $280.00 in socal for Eucalyptus. Not bad since they truck it almost 70 miles to my house. Oak goes for $375.00. I like the Eucalyptus better then oak. It is dirty compared to oak, but puts out a lot more heat and lasts longer. Oak smells better though. If I want a winter time or Christmas smell I toss in a couple branches of my pine trees.
Buzz
Buzz
11/14/2010 12:21:33 AM
I just got a cord of pine from a local member for the price of a 12 pack of Corona. I'd say it was an excellent deal.
11/23/2010 10:50:42 PM
Originally Posted By Nozzelnut:
Lodge pole pine is different than eastern varieties, and is good to go in woodstoves and fireplaces.
Lodge pole pine is different than eastern varieties, and is good to go in woodstoves and fireplaces.
Interesting. So it doesn't produce as much creosote?
11/23/2010 11:17:29 PM
I just got a cord from a friend who didn't want it in his yard anymore.
That said, bring that stuff down to Las Vegas. Wood is expensive as hell down here. I paid like $110 for less than 1/2 chord last year. And that was a good deal at the time.
That said, bring that stuff down to Las Vegas. Wood is expensive as hell down here. I paid like $110 for less than 1/2 chord last year. And that was a good deal at the time.
